Right and left-handed signatures of James Garfield

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Permalink Reply by Andreas Wiemer on April 22, 2010 at 8:48am

GOOGLE:
"James Garfield is considered by many to be the first president who may have been left-handed. Anecdotes state that he could write with both hands at the same time. James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, at the same time."

I'm working on a Garfield autograph study and I have a large reference file with hundreds of ALS, LS, Documents etc. My feeling - he wrote everything with his right hand or everything with his left hand. His skript varied little throughout his life and I'm sure we would see differences between left- and right hand.